Macy's Refused To Dole Out OT Pay, Clerk Says

Law360, New York (April 7, 2011, 6:48 PM EDT) -- A former Macy's Inc. sales clerk filed a class action against the department store chain Tuesday in New York for allegedly making it company policy to not pay overtime.

Macy's willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York labor law by refusing to pay any overtime premium — or even straight time — when its sales staff logged more than 40 hours in a week, plaintiff Beverly Charles claims in a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...